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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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The aim of life is appreciation there is no sense in not appreciating things and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not) it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
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